Simon Says Christmas!

Thank you for joining us for the Anything Goes Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.This week the challenge is

Christmas

If you haven’t started on your Christmas cards yet then maybe now is the time to start! It does help to get you into the Christmas spirit if you pop some carols on your music system and maybe pour yourself a thimbleful of sherry!

We are showcasing Penny Black Products this week! You don’t have to use them to join in with the challenge but if you have some we would love to see them used!

I used Penny Black Snowy Grove cling stamp set to create my background for the card.

I sponged a white panel with distress inks in blue shades. I used Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers and Blueprint Sketch. I also dried the panel with heat gun after blending the inks. Then I used MISTI to stamp the Snowy Grove image. I used Mama Elephant’s Hazel, Tutti Fruiti and Plumberry inks to stamp the image on the sponged background. MISTI is awesome tool for stamping especially in this instance because there are more than one ink involved to get gradient colours on the image and also to get even coverage. I moved the image so slightly to get a shadow effect. This adds to the depth of the image. I left the panel to dry. Once dry, I added white dots using Sakura white gel pen and a few with Nuvo White Blizzard crystal drops.